Wisdom Wells
 The Wisdom Well is an interactive floor which is incorporated in a central place of the school. The knowledge well is an interactive working surface and a window towards the outside world. Cooperation and knowledge sharing across geographic distances are established – internal between the different year groups in the school as well as external between other educational institutions, working places and culture institutions. The Wisdom Well is intended to be a central meeting point where students and teachers obtain new learning horizons by communicating across the digital interactive water on the floor. The Wisdom Well is an analogy to Miner’s well. In the Nordic mythology Miner’s well was the well of wisdom where Odin sacrifices his one eye to obtain eternal wisdom. The interactive knowledge wells are placed on the three central squares to support learning and knowledge sharing among students and teachers. “The wells” are 3 x 4 meters interactive floorages. From the bottom of “the well” the pictures are projected up on the floor. This interactive picture surface can support and implement new project initiatives and exiting games. Furthermore, information regarding present projects, intranet and internet can be presented and analyzed. The Wisdom Well will thus be both a working surface and a window towards the outside world. This will promote the cooperation across the different squares and the outside world. The interactivity of the Wisdom Well are controlled in different ways: by recording the placement of the physical objects on the area, emission of heat or pressure makes is possible to interact with the picture. The interactive Wisdom Well is a multi-functional supplement to the additional IT focus of the school. Some early prototypes has already been presented at the school in September 2005 to the mayor of Århus Louise Gade and the danish minister of education Bertel Haarder. We are currently working on different concepts that support learning in new ways through workshops and design meetings with teachers and children at the school. iFloorQuest Screenshot of the application: 
Stepstone Screenshoot of the application: 
Timeline Some important dates in the project: - September '06: Article presented at Interact in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- June '06: Radio program about the Wisdom Wells aired on BBC Digital Planet.
- June '06: Article presented at ACE 2007 in Salzburg, Austria.
- June '06. Article presented at IDC 2007 in Aalborg, Denmark.
- December '06: Wisdom Well was handed over to Møllevangsskolen.
- August '06: First prototypes with tracking from below are working.
- April '06: The first knowledge well was opened with Louise Gade visiting the school. TV2/Østjylland covered this event on television.
- September '05: Early prototype of the well was demonstrated to the danish minister of education Berthel Haarder. TV2/Østjylland covered the event on television.
People The people who mainly worked on this project. - Kaj Grønbæk
- Karen Johanne Kortbek
- Kaspar Rosengreen Nielsen
- Louise Aagaard
- Ole Iversen
- Jonas Breum Jensen
- Marie Højlund
Links Links to various pages related to the project:
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